Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

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Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

jefe wrote: DC released Maxim Tissot, who ended up promptly signing with San Francisco Deltas.

There's a player to watch. Boom. Tish.

[Anton Gramscescu]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

Drunk on success, Greg Vanney has gone Championship Manager on us. Yesterday at 2-2, playing 3-4-1-2 and down to our last sub, Hagglund went down with knee-knock. In went attacking-midfield Vasquez, to give us a 2-4-2-2. After Ricketts scored the third, Jozy was pulled back into midfield to give us a 2-4-3-1 formation.

One day, people will remember yesterday as the birth of the seven-man midfield. Right now we just think of it as "6th in a row".

[imp]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

DC United lost 0-4 at home to the crap Philadelphia Union. What on earth's going on there, or not?

[jefe]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

Hagglund's out for month's with a torn MCL, Giovinco for 3 weeks with a pulled quad.

The people behind the Sacramento expansion bid have officially bought up all of the USL team.

imp: I have no idea. It seems to be down from week to week as to what people are put out there on the day and whether they show up or not.

[jefe]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

jefe wrote: USOC Round 1 was tonight and so far: Des Moines Menace got bounced by a USASA team from Cleveland, Western Mass Pioneers also got bounced by an NPSL team from Boston, a team run by my favorite burrito place in the Mission District lost to the Quakes PDL affiliate on penalties, and a bunch of guys from a pub in Pittsburgh won their first round match and get to host Louisville City in the Riverhounds stadium next round.

Round 2 was tonight. The pub team got hammered 9-0 by Louisville City; OKC Energy's varsity won, while their U-23's lost to Tulsa Roughnecks. Same for Jacksonville Armada, varsity wins against PDL Miami United, U-23's bounced by Tampa Bay Rowdies. The Charlotte derby went to the Independence, 3-2 over Charlotte Eagles. Pittsburgh Riverhounds lost to a PDL team whose season hasn't started yet, Chicago FC United. Who in Round 3, will host the biggest upset from Round 2, a pub team from Baltimore that won at Richmond Kickers, 1-0.

The second biggest upset is funnier. Reading United 3-2 New York Cosmos.

[jefe]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

jefe wrote:

USOC Round 1 was tonight and so far: Des Moines Menace got bounced by a USASA team from Cleveland, Western Mass Pioneers also got bounced by an NPSL team from Boston, a team run by my favorite burrito place in the Mission District lost to the Quakes PDL affiliate on penalties, and a bunch of guys from a pub in Pittsburgh won their first round match and get to host Louisville City in the Riverhounds stadium next round.

Round 2 was tonight. The pub team got hammered 9-0 by Louisville City; OKC Energy's varsity won, while their U-23's lost to Tulsa Roughnecks. Same for Jacksonville Armada, varsity wins against PDL Miami United, U-23's bounced by Tampa Bay Rowdies. The Charlotte derby went to the Independence, 3-2 over Charlotte Eagles. Pittsburgh Riverhounds lost to a PDL team whose season hasn't started yet, Chicago FC United. Who in Round 3, will host the biggest upset from Round 2, a pub team from Baltimore that won at Richmond Kickers, 1-0.

The second biggest upset is funnier. Reading United 3-2 New York Cosmos.

Said Baltimore pub team, Christos FC, is running a gofundme to front their travel expenses for their game in Illinois. Sacha Kljestan kicked in $500 for it. The USSF has a travel stipend for these situations, $10K per team for the 1st 2 rounds, $11k after that. It's just that they get around to reimbursing you 5-6 months later. Winner of this game gets DCU at the soccerplex in Round 4. Round 4 also has a NYC derby, a Cascadia US derby, and San Jose hosting the winner of the SF Deltas game, unfortunately. That would have been great at Kezar.

[Anton Gramscescu]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

No Jozy (yellows). No Seba (thigh knack). No problem. TFC 5 - 0 Columbus. Five points clear at the top of the league.

[ursus arctos]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

John Brooks is on his way from Hertha BSC to VfL Wolfsburg, with a world record transfer fee for a US player (20 million euro) going from Volkswagen City to the capital.

Montreal into the final of the Voyageurs Cup as Whitecaps Reserves fall 4-2.

[jefe]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

Toronto joins them after downing Ottawa.

Attention AG: Possible Canada v England in TO in the fall.

Dallas lost Walker Zimmerman to a knee injury for several weeks and is looking into bringing in William Yarborough from Mexico.

Colorado is rumored to be signing a Mexican international midfielder; Portland is looking into signing Diego Chara's brother and did sign a center back from the Congo.

Brad Davis' first retirement gig is to be the TD of a new youth club-Kansas City Scott Gallagher.

USOC: The Baltimore team won in Chicago and gets DCU in Round 4. Rochester needed a goal in the 120th minute to beat some New England amateurs. Reading got hammered by Harrisburg, who get Philly next. Charleston Battery beat Jacksonville, and are rewarded with Atlanta.

A few people in Omaha are chasing a USL team.

Miami FC appears to have offered Totti a contract, likely starting in the NASL fall season.

[Hot Pepsi]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

The club is called Kansas City Scott Gallagher?

[ursus arctos]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

Yup.

The Scott Gallagher club was a long time power in St. Louis area amateur/youth soccer

[Hot Pepsi]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

My guess was that Scott Gallagher was a coach or a kid who died young, but it's not that sentimental. It's about sheet metal.

According to SLSG's site.

"The Scott Gallagher Soccer Club traces its roots back to 1976, when St. Louisan Jim Scott – the owner of a sheet-metal company called Scott-Gallagher, Inc. – began lending sponsorship assistance to a small soccer club from north St. Louis County called Ruiz S.C. One year later, Mr. Scott assumed the sponsor role of the club, and after a two-year transition period, the club officially began playing as Scott Gallagher Soccer Club in 1979."

[jefe]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

Cheapest list ticket price for Seattle-Portland USOC Round 4: $16

Cheapest list ticket price for RBNY-NYC FC USOC Round 4: $65

[jefe]

Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

Attn: imp. Regarding your question about why Richmond's attendance has skyrocketed, see this

Ticket sales for Cincinnati-Columbus in Round 4 are at about 1,500; 1,000 of which are from traveling Crew fans. Cincinnati is also playing Valencia in July.

The semiridiculous red card on Orlando's midfield last Sunday got overturned. Which makes the idiocy of the president of one of Orlando's supports groups tweeting the number and address of the ref's business to encourage people to harass him even more stupid than before.

San Jose says they'll announce a significant player acquisition by the end of the month.

Patrick Mullins out for 6 weeks for DC after knee surgery.

Peter Wilt is starting another D3 league next year, the National Independent Soccer Association. About 10 teams to start, up to a total of 24, with pro/rel when the team count gets high enough. Budgets of $1.5 to $3M per year. So we shall see.

David Beckham and friends have finally nailed down all the land they need for their stadium.

Superliga returns, with a different name: 4 MLS teams v 4 Liga MX team early next year is being rumored.

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Old Enough to Drink and Superdraft - MLS 2017

jefe wrote: Attn: imp. Regarding your question about why Richmond's attendance has skyrocketed, see this

The beer - it's always the beer. A couple of weeks ago I was guest-presenting at our monthly referees' meeting, and was holding forth about how shit the online tests are. I suggested that a couple of times a year our monthly meetings could be turned into pub quizzes, with teams of four refs competing to win prizes. "We could also serve beer," I said. Applause.

A few years back I was on the board of the North Chevy Chase Swimming Pool Association. My sole achievement? Proposing a motion that a couple of times per summer there could be adult-only social events at the pool where wine and beer were served. We had to hold an extraordinary members' meeting for that one. I made a speech that was very much pro-beer. Applause (except from the Christian Mothers' Temperance Union caucus). The motion was passed. I'm sure there's a commemorative tile in the pool somewhere by now.

[jefe]

Cincinnati got 30,000 in to see them dump Columbus, 1-0, in what is rapidly becoming known as the Hell is Real derby (some famous roadsign on the road between the two.)

RSL got destroyed by Sacramento Republic; Orlando likewise by Miami FC, and the Cascadia Open Cup match became a reserves match after both teams signed a bunch of reserve players to temporary first team contracts just to give the varsities a break.

[Hot Pepsi]

DC United were down 1-0 to FC Christos, an amateur team sponsored by a liquor store in Baltimore that doesn't practice or scout opponents. DC ultimately won 4-1, but during the part of the first half I watched, they were looking like a shitty pub team and Christos were looking like a slightly better pub team.

Good turn out from the Christos supporters. The game was in Germantown.

[Anton Gramscescu]

TFC 2 - 0 DCU. But something is wrong with Giovinco.

Also, how in hell are the fire only one point behind us? They looked terrible when they were here a few weeks ago

[jefe]

Tony DiCicco died.

DC traded $175,000 of assorted allocation money and an international slot to Houston to swap up to 1st on the allocation order list, in order to bring in Deshorn Brown from Tampa Bay. Because no one can score, the international striker signed last year and exiled to Richmond wants out and is probably heading to the Middle East, and the Costa Rican striker imported over the winter is almost certainly gone as well.

All of the IP and debts and contracts (I think) of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers went up for bankruptcy auction. Top bid? $5,100. So Bill Edwards gets to keep it.

Canada v Jamaica at BMO 9/2.

San Jose has been teasing a major signing; Dutch papers say it's a Georgian midfielder from Vitesse Arnhem Valeri whose last name I will not attempt to spell.

Awhile back, MLS sold off a chuck of SUM to Providence Equity for $150. They bought it back this week, for triple the sale price.

Chicago is supposed to be chasing Jakub Blasczcykowski; Montreal Wesley Sneijder, Dallas a Colombian midfielder in Turkey who is not Fabian Castillo, LA Galaxy Jean-Pierre Gignac, LAFC Andres Guardado.

Halifax City Council unanimously approved the CPL stadium deal in front of them.

[Anton Gramscescu]

TFC 2 - 0 Revolution.

I haven't had this much fun watching sports in 23 years.

[jefe]

DC traded $175,000 of assorted allocation money and an international slot to Houston to swap up to 1st on the allocation order list, in order to bring in Deshorn Brown from Tampa Bay. Because no one can score, the international striker signed last year and exiled to Richmond wants out and is probably heading to the Middle East, and the Costa Rican striker imported over the winter is almost certainly gone as well.

And almost 2/3 of it came straight back from our chunk of the $250,000 a Saudi club paid for Alhadji Kamara. So a flier on Deshorn Brown cost us about $8k of allocation money and a foreign slot.

ESPN2 is going to televise the Cincinnati-Chicago Fire USOC game this Wednesday.

[jefe]

NASL officially expands to San Diego for next year, owned by Eden Hazard, Demba Ba, Yohan Cabaye, Moussa Sow, and a few others.

San Jose canned Dominic Kinnear and John Spencer. And when asked about it, their new GM said he was going to sack Kinnear at the end of the season anyway, it just got moved up.

[jefe]

TFC wins the Canadian Championship 3-2 on aggregate over Montreal.

Round 4 of the USOC started tonight, Dallas 3-1 Colorado.

[Anton Gramscescu]

There is no longer anything wrong with Giovinco. And there is nothing better than beating Montreal. Listen to the crowd on the second goal - it was *loud*.

[jefe]

I really don't know if there are words extant to express how angry I am at what is happening on East Capitol Street right now.